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Show s. The Garden of pleafant Flower The Garden of plea/ant Hlowers. ~~and{potted Comfrey,andit might beeas fitly calledfjpottedBugloffCc, whereuntoit is as like as vnto Comfrey, as I {aid before: Cuar. XXXVI. The Vertues; alem. Pimonaria, Lungwort,or Cowllips of Ieruf or theth Kitchen -herbes ffor rorevfed as Pot-herbes é lants are genérally and are g ie4Hee delight, yet becaufethey are bothcalled Cowflips, them next vnto them,in ‘sf like forme, bat of much Jeffe beauty, I haue ioyned at this time. fe maypaf fo and s, themfelue by a difting Chapter f : 1, Pulmonaria maculofa, Common {potted Cowllips It is much commendedof fome, to beefingular goodfor vicered lungs; that are full ofrotten matter. Asalfo forthemthat {pit bloud, being boys led and drunke. Itis ofgreatcft vfe forthe pot, being generally held robe good, both forthe lungs and theheart. of Iernfaiem. Cuar.XXXVIL many rough, large, and round leaves , but pointed The Cowllip oflerufal em hathot-ftalke s, fpotted habe many round ho: {pots a vpon long fo at the ends, ftandingefatore : 1. Buglofum & Borrago, Bugloffe and Borage: browne leaties, and of a grayer greene vnderncath: the Te ee eae browne ftalkes, a foote high, bearing manyflowers Lthough Botageand Bugloffe mightas fitly hauebeen placed, Iconfeffe, ini srtked ae e, very veare vefembling the flowers of Cowllips, being of apurple orred. A« Kitchen Garden, in regard they are wholly in'a manner {pent for Phyfi- with white ait in brownith greenc huskes , and fometimes it hath beene found: containing heads, round {mall vp come canes whenthe fowers are’paft, there and thicke blackeftrings. long ofmany d compofe is roote the : ed blackefe ned into Gardens of pleafure, their fowers hauing been in fome refpeaty in that they Sek ea while they arebuds, and ofa darke blewith colourwhen they are blowne, lem. 3. Palmonaria alters now machlofs.Vafpotted Cowllips of Terufa softliis other kinde are not much vnlike the former, being roughasthy ofa fairer greene colouraboue, and ofa whiter greene vaiderneath, fimaller, oe= the former , and of without any {pots atall vponthe leaues : the flowers alfo-arelike the former: the then talkes the fame:colour, but a little more branched vponthef rootesalfo are blacke like vnto them. 3. Palmonaria anguftifolia. Narrow leafed Cowdlips oflerufalem. " ‘The leaues hereofare fomewhat longer, but not fo broad, and {potted with yi {pots alfoas the former: the ftalke hereofis fet with thelike long hairy leaues {maller, being a foote high or better, bearing at the toppe many flowers, to huskes like the firft, being fomewhatreddifh in the bud, and ofa darkepurplith colour whenthey are blowne open : the {eedeislike the former, ‘all ofthem pie refemble Buglofle and Comfrey in moft parts , except theroote, whichis not! them,but{tringie,like vato Cowflips, yet blacke. call properties; or forthe Pot, yet becaufeanciently they haue been entertai- haue alwaics been enterpofed among the flowers of womens needle-worke; I am more willing togiue them place here, then thruft them into obfcurity, and take fuchoftheir tribe with themalfo as mayfit for this place,either for beantyorrarity, The Garden Bugloffe and Borageare fo well knowne vntoall, that I thall (I doubt) but {pend time ia wafteto defcribe them ; yet not vfing to paffe ouerany thing I name and appropriateto this Garden fofleightly, they are thus to beeknowne’: Bugloffe hath many long, narrow,hairy, or rough fad greene leanes, among whichrife vptwo orthree very high ftalks,branched atthetop, wheteon ftand many blew flowers,confifting of fiue {mall round pointed leaues, with fiall pointell in the middle, whichare very finooth,fhining,and ofa reddith purple whilethey are buds , and not blowne open, which beingfallen, there groweth inthe greene huske, wherein the flowerftood, three orfoure roundith blacke feedes, hauing that thread or pointell ftanding (till in the middle oftem : the roote is blacke without, and whitifhwithin, long, thicke,and full of flimie inice (asthe leaues arealfo)and perifheth not cuery yeare,asthe roote of Borage doth, 2. Borrago. Borage; Borage hath broader,fhorter, greener, and rougherleaves then Bugloffe, the ftalkes hereof are notfo high, but branched into many parts, whereon ftand larger lowers; and morepointed at the end then Bugloffe, and of a paler blew colour for the moft part (yet fometimes the flowers are reddifh, and fometimes pure white) each ofthe The Place, The Cowflips of Ierufalem grow naturally in the Woodsof Germ in diuers places, and the firft kinde in England alfo, found out phe Goodier, a great fearcher and loner ofplants, dwelling at Maple-dusha | in Hamphhire. The Time. They flower forthe moft part very early, that is, in the beginnine® Aprill, The Names. They aregenierally called inLatine, Palmonaria, and maculefa, or oe | eulofa,is addedfordiftinétionsfake. Of fome it is called Symphitum . lofum,that is,fpotted Comfrey. In Englith itis diuerfly called zaslpe a Cowilips of Ierufalem, Sageof Jerufalem, Sage of Bethlehem, Lung a flowers confifting of fiue leaues, ftanding in a round hairy whitith huske , diuided into fiue parts,and hauea fmall vmboneof fine blackifh threads in the middle, ftanding out pointedat the end,and broad atthe bottome: the feed is likethe other: the rootis thicker and fhorterthen the roote ofBugloffe, {omewhatblackifh withoutalfo, and whitifh within,and peritheth after feedetime, but rifeth ofit owne feede fallen, and {pringeth in the beginning ofthe yeare. 3. Borragofemper virens. Euetlining Borage. Euerliuing Borage hath many broadgreene leaues,and fomewhat rough, morerefembling Comfrey then Borage, yet not fo largeas either ; theftalkes are not fo high as Borage, and haue manyfall blew flowers onthem, verylike to the flowers of Buglofle for the forme, and Borage for theculour : the rootes areblacke, thicker then either of them, fomewhat more {fpreading , and notperifhing having greene lcaucs allthe Winter long, and thereupon tookehis name. 4. Anchufa, |
